Knit stocking or sock.



R. W. SCOTT.

KNIT ST OCKiNG OR SOCK. I APPLICATION FILED SEPT.-2, 19-14.

Patented July 25, 1916. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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mconronsrnn; or CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION or NEW-JERSEY.

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Application filed September 2, 1914. SeriaLNo. 859,755.

To all whomz't may 0 m} Be it known that I, ROBERT W. Soo'r'r, a

citizen of the United States, and resident off Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements. in Knit Stock ings or Socks, of which the following 1s a specification. p I j My invention relates to an improved stocking or sock.

cordance with that shown in my application Serial No. 748,310, filed February 1 1, 1913 20, 1914.). My i'nv'ention therefore ings knit in either direction, having any desired finish at the top, and having at the toe seam a welt holding the knit structure on either side of the toe seam against curling forming a structure fast againstqraveling. when sewed through atrandom at any point withinits edge.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stocking complete except for the closure at the toe seam; Fig. 2

is an illustrationof one form of the im-- proved structure at the toe of the st ock1ng, blank; Fig. 3 is an illustration of the abut ted ends of the fabric at the toe seam, show-v ing another form of knit structure at the toe seam; Fig; 4 is -a.'view similar toFig. 3 illustrating another form of structure at the toe seam; Fig. 5 is an illustration oflthe foot of l a stocking prior to the 'sewing'operation;

p the art.

Fig. 6 shows the completedtoe seam; and

Fig. 7 shows a sock knit froni'top to toe hav ing a ribbed top.

Referring now to Fig. l the tubular leg B of the stocking may be provided with an integral top -A, for instance a welt of the type disclosed in my said application or in Letters Patent Nos. 1,045,620, November 26, 1912, or.1,079,267, November 18,1913,

or of any other known form. The leg B may be fashioned at the ankle portion in any usual manner, and a seamless heel H, foot F, thereafter be knit as usual, in a and toe T may The operations for forming an intergral out-turned ,Welt according to my said pat relates to stook- Patented July 25, 1916.

during knitting upon the remaining needles of fabric for the welt. I may form at the toe-gap'of the tubular blank a short welt,-as atw, Fig. 52, either asan incident of the making of'a stringwork. containing a section of waste fabric, av, Fig. 1, or as an initial operation, as shown'in Fig. 2, there- 5 r after knitting the remainder of the stock One object of my invention is to form a terminal selvage at the toegap of a seamless stocking that will not have the tendency to curl displayed by a stocking made in acing as described in my said application. Such a short welt w, which may be only a fewcourses in extent, provides a fast edge in.

the fold f, Figil, the turn or fold in the fabric' preventing further tendency, of fabric at the edge to curl toward its face. In case ,the stocking. is started at the toe-gap, the

few courses of knitted turned weltfabric present an edge 7 readily handled by the sewing machine operator. As set out in my saidapplication'fabric having a fast edge may besewed upon an overseaming looper not provided with instruments to guide the sewing stitch through terminal loops, the

stitches striking at random into the edge forming a fast joint. Such an operation may be performed by the unskilled and at less expense than looping through the ter-. minal loops.

the same purposes at the toe-gap, when the stocking is kni'tflin the other direction, from top totoe. g

Referring now to Fig.1, I may first knit .theleg B,'*heel H, foot F, and toe portion T,

and then form the welt W, by again-with holding in recurrent wales and upon r'ecury rent needles (which' may .be the same as the loops of course 5, or in continuation of' some only of said loops, but such fabric is not essential, and prior to or during the sewingpperation for'the close of the'toe will be cut away. or raveled out to the weft, or

. nearly to the welt. The fabric at the toegap will then be folded upon itself as usual,

' Essentially the same structure as that shown in Fig. 2 maybe employed for the weltcd edges of the fabric then being passed, with the said edges abutting, through an owl-seaming loopcr to make the toe seam t.

Asillustrated at X in Fig. 4, the sewing needle of the looper may penetrate the fab ric at random either through the welt proper, or through the fabric preceding the welt, and in each case will engage a thread formation fast against ravcling.

Or I may accomplish the same purposes by the different construction illustrated in Fig. 3, the short welt we at the toe seam now being formed by withholding loops .2 inrecurrent wales during the knitting of a plurality of successive courses in theintervem ing wales y, and theralfter c2 terminal loops in each of the We! 38 3,7. Knitting is now resumed in the said recurrent wales only, as illustrated at courses 6 and 7 in said Fig. 3. but in this case also I may continue knitting in. said recurrent wales for sullicient faliric to form a section of 'aste fabric, in continuation of so many wales as there are wales containing the loops .2, conveniently one-half the number in the entire tube. It will be understood that the purpose of the waste fabric, when provided, is merely to protect the welt formation. until the toe-seam is closed.

In the structure forued according to Fig. 3, it will be noticed that the course 6 picks up the free ends of all of the wales y of the fabric knit following the course containing the loops .2, which causes the terminal loops of-wales 9 to pass through the sinker wales of the adjacent following fabric of courses 6 and 7, the natural curl of the fabric having thrown the loops cast ofi' in the wales y forward between the needles holding withheld loops .2. i This structure is similar to that disclosed for a different purpose and clail'necl in my application Serial No. 823,121, filed March 7, 1914 (Letters Patent No. 1,113,110. dated October G, 1914:).

When sewing two abutted welts of the form illustrated in Fig. 3, the sewing implement may enter at any point, for instance any of the points X, and still form a fast seam locking the fabric behind the welt from rareling, the frictional effect due to the described passing forward of the terminal loops in the wales 1 preventing raveling from any of the terminal loops whether or not engaged by the sewing thread.

By providing the welt formation for the described purposes at the toe-gap when the stocking is knit from top to toe, I may form the fabric upon a transferred section or ribbed top R, as illustrated in Fig .7 or the off as 1,192,soo

product may be provided with a turned welt for the top as for woniens hose.

It will be obvious that my invention provides a stocking made with a selvage or fast edge at the toe seam, and that it also enables the stocking to be provided with a ribbed top, turned welt or other beginning edge fast against raveling' of any known form requiring to be knit at the beginning of the knitting operation.

What I claim is:

1. A seamless stocking comprising a foot portion and toe-pocket adapted to be closed by a sewed seam and having an integral welt at the edges adapted to be sewed together by said seam.

2. A seamless stocking having a fast beginning edge at the top thereof, and comprising a foot portion having a toe-pocket ending in an integral welt.

3. A stocking of knit fabric haying a foot portion provided with a toe seam consisting of a. line of sewing stitches uniting parts of an integral welt formed in the fabric of the foot portion. y

4. A circular sean'iless stocking having seamless heel and toe pockets, anda toe seam comprising a welt surrounding the tube of fabricfolded into abutting relation and united by sewing stitches.

5. As an article of manufacture, a stocking having an integral outturned welt at the top of the leg thereof and an integral outturned welt at the end of the toe portion thereof.

6. In a stocking, a. welt formation for securing againstraveling an edge joined to another part of the fabric by sewing stitches passed through the edge at random.

.7. In a stocking, a terminal welt forma- 100 tion comprising loops withheld in recurrent wales, and fabric in continuation of intervening wales terminating incast-off loops passed through sinker wales between said recurrent Wales.

8. In a. stocking a seam comprising a terminal welt formation having loops withheldin recurrent wales, and fabric in continuation of intervening wales terminating in cast-off loops passed through sinker wales 110 between said recurrent wales, and sewing stitches passed at random through the fabric at and near the welt.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 115 two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT IV. SCOTT.

lVitnesses MARY F. GRIFFIN, Maucnuu'r J. BARRY. 

